Politics

Sometime this month, Nigeria’s government should finally get a cabinet, as promised by President Muhammadu Buhari. Some commentators have erroneously described the more than one hundred cabinet-free days as as the longest such period in […]

Since Thursday, August 27, when President Muhammadu Buhari, made what has been termed key appointments in his Presidency, political analysts have been saying things are no longer at ease; and that it will require an […]

In this interview with ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, human rights lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, speaks about President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments You are from the South-South. Why have you come out to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments which […]

Presidential aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, has expressed confidence that the wave of Boko Haram attacks could end before the three months given by President Muhammadu Buhari to end the insurgency. He also said that hope […]

The debate over full-time or part-time legislature is gathering momentum. Assistant Editor LEKE SALAUDEEN examines the pros and cons of the options and their implications for governance. Nigerians are sharply over the proposal that the […]

In its response to accusations of sectionalism and even nepotism in determining federal appointments so far, the Buhari presidency has confidently indicated that balance would soon be restored, itself an admission  of existing disequilibrium. Presidential […]

It is said that thunder hardly strikes twice at the same spot. If the now civilianized former military ruler from Daura is remembered for little else, he will be memorialized as the man under whose […]

Last Tuesday, Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, paid an early morning surprise visit to the state secretariat during which he locked out civil servants who arrived late for work. As usual, the governor’s media aides […]

Jonathan’s ministers’ self-assessment is in bad taste When a lizard falls from a wall and no one around seems to appreciate what it has done, the lizard nods in self-appreciation of the feat it has […]

•Tribunal directs investigation by security agencies •Ex-Wike’s deputy, others say election didn’t hold Petitioners at the Rivers State governorship election petition tribunal – the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate in the last governorship […]

The election petition tribunal sitting in Lokoja on Saturday fixed Sept. 8, for the hearing of a petition filed by Sen. Smart Adeyemi against the election of Sen. Dino Melaye . The Chairman of the […]

Whether they wrote the letter to President Buhari from self-motivation, or they merely read former president Goodluck Jonathan’s lips and put their worries in writing, the ex-ministers who issued a statement late August condemning the […]

For more than 100 days now since they were sworn-in, most of the state governors are yet to appoint commissioners. In this report, Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu with Austine Tsenzughul in Bauchi, Bisi Olaniyi in […]

When he was sworn-in as the president  after his victory at  the March 28  election, many Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief that the apparent slide the country had steadily witnessed, especially in the last […]

As President Muhammadu Buhari inquires into the Boko Haram war expenditures under the last administration, it has emerged that Nigeria’s traditional allies in the West deliberately frustrated former President Goodluck Jonathan’s efforts towards ending terrorists’ […]

• Buhari may reject governors’ list Contrary to what obtained in the last 16 years, state governors appeared to have lost influence to make input into the appointment of ministers. The governors, especially those elected […]

EVEN as an acting chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Amina B. Zakari has gotten more than her fair share of bashing, particularly from the political party under which she was invited […]

EVERY patriotic Nigerian should support President Muhammadu Buhari in his war against terror and its twin demon of corruption. His success or failure would ultimately be judged by the defeat of insurgency and the recovery […]

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress said on Friday that the campaign of calumny and probe of the administration of the immediate past administration of Mr. Rotimi Amaechi by the state government […]

After losing power to the All Progresives Congress in March, the Peoples Democratic Party has seized every opportunity to highlight what it considers as the ruling party’s shortcomings, FISAYO FALODI writes The idea of using […]